Rub Al Khali - Empty Quarter

The inspiring photographs capture the sand of the Rub Al Khali in all their variety - swirling along the dune edge, cascading from a dune top, shading from golden red to pale copper. However, they also show man's imprint in his carefully designed and finished stone wells, piled rock trail signs mapping the desert for the Bedouin nomad, incised petroglyphs and shaped tools. The photographer also includes amazing pictures of the native wildlife in its habitat - Oryx racing down a slope, a single swallow cresting the air, of the few plants deep-rooted enough to flower and fruit, thus nurturing the life of the desert. To surprise the unwary, Mohammed Babelli also photographed the exceptional instances of water in the desert - - jetting from under the sands to form a salt-encrusted lake, trickling over a stone to nourish algae.

By:

Abdulaziz Al Obaida

Mohammed Babelli

Elisabeth Greenberg

Size 30 x 30 cm

230 pages

First edition 2009

9786030014675